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Squeers

Wackford, in Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby, the schoolmaster of Dothe-boys Hall. Mr. Squeers is thus described:

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two. The eye he had was unquestionably useful, but decidedly not ornamental: being of a greenish gray, and in shape resembling the fanlight of a street door. The blank side of his face was much wrinkled and puckered up, which gave him a very sinister appearance, especially when he smiled, at which times his expression bordered closely on the villainous. His hair was very flat and shiny, save at the ends, where it was brushed stiffly up from a low protruding forehead, which assorted well with his harsh voice and coarse manner.

See Nicholas Nickleby; Dotheboys Hall

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